Insights

A complex negotiation between teams becomes a fight for human survival between a nuclear-armed AI and one man’s mouse.

We used to like to say that Bishkek was not the end of the world—but you could see it from there.

Much diplomatic work gets done—and information gathered—in social settings, especially when some alcohol is involved.

Take a virtual excursion through late imperial Russia. Buy gingerbread. Climb Elbrus. Take a koumiss cure.

Eighteen scholars from around the world join the Davis Center community remotely this year. Learn more about them and their work.

My first encounters with Central Asia occurred in 1995-1997 while I was serving as Special Assistant to Ambassador Jim Collins, the State Department’s Ambassador-at-Large for the New Independent State

Deep into a negotiation, you realize an issue you fought hard for no longer suits your interests. What should you do now?

An expanded guide to the HPSSS, a collection of anonymous interviews in which several hundred Soviet displaced persons and defectors described their experiences.

Although I had met Islam Karimov once or twice before my arrival at Tashkent in October, 1997, I hardly knew him. He evidently knew a lot about me.